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The friendship between Benjamin and Adorno is an academic legend. Seldom have two dialectical minds disputed each other as resolutely, as amicably, and with less intent to reconcile their differences. It is a dissension that has proven rich enough for decades of interpretation: two architectures of dialectic thought that in different ways seek to evade the maelstrom of Hegelianism. As we shall see, the conflict will direct us toward questions of time: ontological, experiential, historical, and political.
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Theodor Adorno, Kierkegaard: Construction of the Aesthetic, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1989), 90–1.
Cf. Werner Hamacher, ‘Afformative, Strike: Benjamin’s “Critique of Violence”,’ in Destruction and Experience, eds. Andrew Benjamin and Peter Osborne (Manchester: Clinamen Press, 2000), 108–36;
Jacques Derrida, ‘Force of Law: The “Mystical Authority of Justice”,’ in Cardozo Law Review 11: 919, 920–1045; Gewalt und Gerechtigkeit: Derrida-Benjamin ed. Anselrn Haverkarnp (Frankfurt am Main, Suhrkarnp, 1994); Giorgio Agamben, ‘The Messiah and the Sovereign: The Problem of Law in Walter Benjamin,’ in Potentialities (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999), 160–74.
Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida, (New York: Hill and Wang, 1981), 76.
Jacques Derrida, Copy, Archive, Signature: A Conversation on Photography, ed. Gerhard Richter (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 6–7.
Gottfried Boehm, Wie Bilder Sinn erzeugen: die Macht des Zeigens (Berlin: Berlin University Press, 2007), see especially the essay, ‘Unbestimmtheit: Zur Logik des Bildes,’ 199–212.
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Petersson, D. (2013). Introduction to a Reality of Dreams. In: The Art of Reconciliation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137029942_1
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